Energy Efficiency Improvements in 2013 Add to Impressive Regional Savings
- October 07, 2014
- John Harrison
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The Council will be holding a webinar to give stakeholders and the public an overview of the process we use to develop our regional energy plan.
Council Chair Bill Bradbury joined representatives of federal dam operators, tribes, and other river users today in celebrating the huge return of salmon to the Columbia River in 2014 — a record return of sockeye and near record returns of
Salmon are returning from the Pacific Ocean to the Columbia River in big numbers this year.
The Council has begun work on its Seventh Power Plan, which provides guidance to the region on resource development. The Northwest Power Act requires that the Council include in the power plan a method for determining the quantifiable environmental costs
The Council's power plans give the region guidance on resource acquisition so we'll have the energy we need without sacrificing our natural resources.
Coho, fall Chinook, and sockeye salmon returned from the Pacific Ocean to the Columbia River in record or near-record numbers this year.
The State of Idaho and the Bonneville Power Administration have agreed on a 10-year mitigation program that would resolve Idaho’s share of the impacts of Federal Columbia River Power System hydropower dams on wildlife in southern Idaho. Officials of Bonneville
Growing marijuana indoors, now legal in Washington state, is an emerging use of electricity in the Pacific Northwest that could grow to the equivalent of a small city over the next 20 years, according to an analysis by the Council.
The Council has contracted the Northwest Hydroelectric Association to conduct a scoping study on the region's hydropower potential. The study is scheduled to be completed by the end of September.